Post #200
Yep. I’ve written 200 blog posts now just on this blog. What have I been doing with my life? *grin*
Here’s what I haven’t been doing. Writing. I’ve poked and prodded at a couple short stories. I’ve added a few pages (and removed a few pages) from my current novel project. But mostly, I’ve been reading. I’ve been hanging out with my unemployed husband and playing videogames. I’ve been going for walks and planning and replanning things in my head. I’ve been doing admin work updating stories, covers, files, getting stuff linked properly, etc. I’ve been getting rejections and sending stuff out again despite feeling like a kicked dog over and over.
None of which is writing. Not really. My schedule got totally messed up when my husband lost his job. I knew there would have to be some adjustments there, since I need my quiet time and space to get work done. Before, I usually wrote between 11am and about 5-6pm (not straight through, I like my breaks) when I had the whole house to myself and everything was quiet. Now…not so much. Music is on in the other room. Or Anime. Or I just sit at my desk and know that my best friend in the whole damn world is right outside my room and instead of doing this work stuff, I can just go out there and spend time with my favorite person on earth even if all we’ll end up doing is curling up together and reading.
On the one hand, this isn’t so bad. I mean, hey, I get to spend a ton of time with someone I love. On the other hand, we’ve both been somewhat lazy these last few weeks (though I’ve been pretty good about letting him have computer time to job hunt, but if he’s on the computer, I’m not, which means more excuse to NOT write).
It’s an adjustment. I think I’ll have to just start carving out more hours. I’m aiming for 20 pages a day finished, but I’ve really only been getting anything done at all while he’s either asleep or at Jujitsu (which is how I’m even getting this blog written). So yeah, that’s one reason I’ve been quiet lately. Between trying to get what I can done and then also not really being at the computer much, I’ve been a bit AWOL.
And I’ll probably still keep being fairly AWOL until Clarion (and during Clarion? I don’t know if I’ll blog the experience. I’m hoping I’ll blog a bit at least). I’m not horribly behind on my writing schedule, which is surprising to me, but if I finish Avarice this week, I’ll only be a week behind. I owe a couple short stories to anthologies, so those are also on the top of the to-do list. Being a week behind means finishing only 4 novellas instead of 5 before I go, but I can live with that. I’ll be halfway through the novellas for this one series by the time I leave, plus have my anthology stories turned in and hopefully one or two other stories out to market (I’ve got three that are partially written and just waiting on me to focus and write the rest).
20 pages a day. 3 are done for today already, with 17 more to go. I’ve got three hours before my distraction gets home from jits. Go go go.